9 Miles To The Gallon

[madmax]

Help Can Anyone Tell Me What I Should Be Getting To The Gallon,.
At The Mo I Get About 9 To The Gallon.
Thats Normal Driving A And B Roads (not Towing).
I Pulls Find But Does Shake Alot At Bout 45 To 60mph
I Find I Get 173 Miles To £40 Of Deisel
I Have A 2.4 Surf Auto 1993-k
Please Help If You Can

[BUSHWHACKER]

Blimey!!! I do the same driving as you, mostly B roads and a few A roads, and I'm getting about 22 mpg.
I think you should look at an air and fuel filter change first, followed by getting your tracking checked to try and cure the 'shaking ' prob.
Also check your tyre pressures, should be about 33 psi al round. and get some Redex fuel injector cleaner in yer tank.

[paulh]

Help Can Anyone Tell Me What I Should Be Getting To The Gallon,.
At The Mo I Get About 9 To The Gallon.
Thats Normal Driving A And B Roads (not Towing).
I Pulls Find But Does Shake Alot At Bout 45 To 60mph
I Find I Get 173 Miles To £40 Of Deisel
I Have A 2.4 Surf Auto 1993-k
Please Help If You Can

I'd be checking that i was in high ratio !!!!!!!!!

[paulh]

Just thought 173 miles to £40 derv = about 17 mpg

[truckarms]

hey that even makes mine look good
sell yours and buy a petrol one

[sheeprus]

As far as you wobbles go, my wobbles and handling probelms were cured with a new set of rear tyres, getting the Front Wheels balanced and setting the pressure in all tyres to 30 psi. Runs ve smooth now, as far as the consumption!! I am up and down the hills in rural Cork (I mean C road UK style) I still manage a respectable 24 mpg (33 mph at 65-70mph) on the UK motorways.

I'd get your jeep serviced if I were you and check all of your plastic airpipes coming from the airfilter to the Turbo etc.

You may be pleasantly surprised.

[madmax]

Ok Thanks People
Iwill Get It Looked At
Cheers Dan

[MikeyJ]

Ok Thanks People
Iwill Get It Looked At
Cheers Dan

Out of interest, what happened in the end?! Did you get the consumption and shakes / wobbles all sorted? I'm interested because I recently became a Surf owner and am just getting used to everything about the vehicle. Interested in tyre pressures, balancing, consumption, etc.

Let me know, cheers

Mike

[Bear Ona Bike]

I was amazed at the 37 mpg I was getting - until I discovered the speedo had been converted to mph but the odometer was still reading kms.

[sheeprus]

I was amazed at the 37 mpg I was getting - until I discovered the speedo had been converted to mph but the odometer was still reading kms.

Very good! At least 23 or so MPG is far better than 9!!